ChichaPlanet

So I finally found out what the hell was going on with bug #351814, check the link if you want the details.
It is one of the showstoppers for Epiphany 2.16+, so at least having made a workaround makes me feel happy and proud . That means that the patch is 80% a workaround and 20% a hint to solve the real problem, or at least that’s what I think.

jfr said some minutes ago “I don’t understand your patch, but I trust you”. LOL, believe me that I didn’t understood the bug for the last 4 or so weeks that I have been trying to solve it .

Yes, there are packages for Epiphany in Edgy, but this packages include some patches from Bugzilla.
Right now only 3:

1. Keyword search (this fixes bug #350053).
2. Favicon for bookmarks in completion dropdown in location entry (bug #112748).
3. Titles for history items in completion dropdown in location entry (bug #169550).
4. Avoid huge tab tooltips (bug #324052).

By the way. If you want to tell apt that I’m a good guy and want to add my GPG key to apt-key, then you can grab this file and do: $ sudo apt-key add diego_escalante.asc.

I made this for personal use, I’m just sharing them so have that in mind.

Download them:

• epiphany-browser_2.16.1-0ubuntu3diego1_i386.deb
  
• epiphany-browser-dev_2.16.1-0ubuntu3diego1_all.deb

Time ago, Davyd mentioned in his blog that GNOMErs around the world expend their GNOME-loving time not hacking boring code and checking endless bug reports, but playing a MMORPG. Later he released the one true applet that lets you track your progress in this amazing world of adventure.

Of course, this world of amazing things and coding adventures couldn’t be kept away from people with absolutely no life, so the mighty Bugsquad of the Bonobo Forest had to act.

Some hours I decided to go to the UNCONFIRMED Woods to get some EXP points killing DUPLICATES (worth 5 EXP each one).
I gained some points and decided to invest them in Patch Crafting and made patches that allowed me to defeat Epiphany’s #352923, #351100, #324052 and #373549. I could inflict some minor damage on others.

While hunting down these bugs, I realized that #324052 was far too strong to be beaten alone, so I visited the town of #gnome-hackers and luckily grouped with Davyd (Level 20 - Australian Applet Master), HPJ (Level ? - GLib Mage) and treitter (Level ? - Inactive Blogger). Together we attacked #324052 using the best of our spells, sadly my [Level 13 - GNOME Apprentice] wasn’t very helpful, but after some battling and dodging of nasty C tricks we were able to defeat it.
Thanks for your braveness guys. Luckily I managed to take a screenshot of the battle so you can watch the high definition graphics of GNOME Bugzilla:

After the battle I leveled up to Level 14 - GNOME Apprentice. Nice !. That’s all for now.

Long ago, I found a Firefox extension called Compact Menu that put your Menubar in a button that popped up your hidden Menu in a vertical fashion.

I don’t use my Epiphany menu more than 2 times a day and it’s only for Bookmark browsing and maybe allowing popups on a site so as you might guess I find those pixels wasted.
It took some time for me to realize that it wasn’t possible to convert that gtk.MenuBar into a gtk.Menu or something that can be embedded on a gtk.*Button (like gtk.MenuToolButton). This put me on a scenario where I would never clone the FF extension but some hours ago I realized that I didn’t have to clone the extension, I could do something better or similar to it.

My solution was pretty simple, adding a button that toggled the menu as hidden or shown.

Hidden Menu extension + Super Tab Extra + Remove Throbber

Now, add this extension to Super Tab Extra or Only One Close Button (STE does what OOCB does, but I don’t know why :/).
I would also recommend you to remove the throbber with my Remove Throbber extension for a more eye candy’er experience.

Download Hidden Menu extension.
Or download more extensions on my Epiphany Extensions page.

Enjoy!